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Barbell Shrugged

How to Build a Killer Cardiovascular System w/ Dr. Mike T. Nelson, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #731

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis sit down with Anders coach, Dr. Mike T. Nelson.

For those that have followed the show, you know Anders has been in pursuit of running a sub-6 minute mile at the age of 40. Dr. Nelson is the coach Anders hired to help with that goal.

In this episode the crew walks through program design, initial intake, and execution of how to build cardiovascular fitness.

You will learn performance tests used to design Anders training program, how priorities are scheduled into a busy life, understanding higher intensity efforts mixed with Vo2Max training, Zone 2 efforts, and how to maintain strength throughout the process.

We hope you enjoy.

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Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrud family this week on Barbell Shrudge we are talking about the coolest thing ever.

0:04.8

Me!

0:05.8

We brought my coach Dr Michael T Nelson onto the show. Periodically on the show we've

0:11.2

talked about my pursuit of running a six minute mile

0:14.2

And today we're bringing on the guy that I hired to help me do it if we could just figure out how to make it warm outside

0:20.4

So that I could get to the track more often. Instead it's like

0:24.0

freezing and it feels like your lungs are going to close on you as soon as you

0:28.4

start breathing heavy out in the what feels like frigid, frigid weather. I know all the people up in the northeast are in the right now. It makes me not want to go outside and run fast because it hurts my lungs.

0:44.0

But we're going to go through kind of like what I've been up to for the last six-ish months working with Dr. Mike.

0:49.6

The training program he has been on, how we're balancing strength, conditioning, sprinting for high level output,

0:55.8

V.O. 2 max training, how we're doing zone 2 work to supplement, and really just breaking

1:01.0

into all things training on how you would want to kind of structure

1:05.3

a pursuit of running a six minute mile. As always friends you can get over to rapid health report.

1:11.5

com that's where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Galpin are doing a free

1:14.8

lab, lifestyle, and performance analysis that everybody inside Rapid Health optimization will

1:19.6

receive. You can access that video and you that report over at rapid health report.

1:25.0

Come. Friends, let's get into the show.

1:28.0

Welcome to Marl Shug, I'm Anders Marner.

1:33.1

Doug Larson, Coach Travis Smash, Dr. Michael T. Nelson.

1:37.2

My co-on the show today on Barbell Shrug,

1:40.9

we're talking about the most important person in the world, me and my most important thing, my training, why I hired Dr. Michael T Nelson to get me to run a sub six minute mile at the age of 40 years old, which we still have that goal.

1:55.4

We still are going to do that before April 26 of 2025.

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